From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 8 18:36:30 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 18:36:28 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from serio.al.rim.or.jp (serio.al.rim.or.jp [202.247.191.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CE937B400; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 18:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.rim.or.jp by serio.al.rim.or.jp (3.7W/HMX-13) id LAA20791; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:36:26 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost.FromTo.Cc (shell [202.247.191.98]) by mail2.rim.or.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) id LAA29663; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:36:25 +0900 (JST) Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 11:36:26 +0900 Message-ID: <861yviz5g5.wl@ringo.FromTo.Cc> From: Tatsumi Hosokawa To: current@FreeBSD.org Cc: hosokawa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:18:50 -0600" <20001206181850.A47732@peorth.iteration.net> References: <86g0k2q7gz.wl@ringo.FromTo.Cc> <20001206181850.A47732@peorth.iteration.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.1.0 (Overjoyed) SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 12) (Channel Islands) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:18:50 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > > Do you have Alpha boot floppies? Does kons25/big5con/korean compile > on Alpha? Would this fit on our ever growing mfsroot.flp and kern.flp? I don't have alpha machine and my knowledge about Alpha architecture is very limited. But kons25 currently can't be compiled on Alpha machine, and is disabled if ARCH==alpha (perhaps release/localization/kon2 should be release/localization/i386/kon2). > I recall seeing the release engineers struggling with fitting the kernel. I have committed to move *.ko modules to mfsroot.flp (and I think it's easily extended to the third floppy or CD-ROM) last month. This is not enabled on Alpha currently, but I think it can be also used on alpha architecture. I've not put it to alpha floppy only because I dont have alpha testbed. If you copy release/i386/drivers.conf to release/alpha and edit it to fit the alpha architecture, drivers will be moved to mfsroot.flp easily. > It would be hard to make OpenBOOT and SRM do what we do in kons25. > (Doable, but someone has to do it.) I also know that Alpha > SRM+vidcontrol+sc0 can only have one video mode, 80x25. Can > Mr. Yokota clarify this for me? Does vidcontrol on Alpha support loadable font option? Russian support uses only this function and does not use graphics console. Other European languages can be supported in this way. hosokawa -- Tatsumi Hosokawa http://www.sm.rim.or.jp/~hosokawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message